This content is machine translated Diabetic retinopathy Early detection increases chances of treatment Funduscopy and further diagnostic procedures can detect diabetic retinopathy at an early stage. Today, innovative treatment options exist that can slow further progression. Diabetics should be examined ophthalmologically at regular…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Meningiomas Therapeutic options for recurrent or metastatic tumors A “Special Session” at the ESMO Congress focused on meningiomas. Although these brain tumors are primarily treated surgically, higher-grade meningiomas that can grow invasively may require radio or systems therapy.
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Glioblastoma Moving forward with combined forces Considering that glioblastomas are among the most common and malignant brain tumors and have a very poor prognosis, optimizations of the current therapy are urgently needed. Two publications are attracting…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Metastatic colorectal cancer Comparison between bevacizumab and cetuximab in KRAS exon2 wild type. According to preliminary results of a large phase III trial presented at this year’s ASCO congress, bevacizumab and cetuximab (combined with FOLFOX or FOLFIRI) show similar efficacy in terms of…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated 2nd EORTC St. Gallen Gastrointestinal Cancer Conference 2014 VEGF inhibition in metastatic colorectal cancer. The use of the VEGF inhibitor bevacizumab improves the outcome of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer regardless of the chemotherapy chosen. Recent data suggest that the duration of VEGF inhibition…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Second St. Gallen EORTC Conference Multimodality treatment of advanced rectal cancer. Which drugs are suitable for neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy? If there is a complete clinical response, should we wait or operate? And which patients benefit from adjuvant treatment? These were some of…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Treatment of metastatic colorectal carcinoma. Patients with RAS wild type benefit in overall survival New data on first-line treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer were presented at the ASCO GI in San Francisco. The post-hoc analyses consistently confirm that RAS mutation status is an important…
View Post 10 min This content is machine translated Treatment of epithelial ovarian cancer. Slow but steady progress Epithelial ovarian carcinoma is a heterogeneous group of carcinomas that have different etiology, genetics, and thus biological prognosis. In advanced stages (IIB-IV), the standard therapy remains maximal cytoreductive therapy, weighing…
